On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:13:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm pretty new to cron jobs, and I've just started playing around with > them pretty recently. Hi Michael: Cool. > I'd like to be able to create a cron job that does a weekly archive of > all of my folders in ~/mail. The way I have my mail set up is one > folder per box, for example my folders are: > > ~/mail/inbox > ~/mail/debian-user > ~/mail/sent > > I'd like the Cron job to archive these on a weekly basis, but not > exactly on a weekly basis. Instead of reinventing the wheel; Why not use something like archivemail? # aptitude show archivemail Package: archivemail State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.7.0-1 Priority: optional Section: mail Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Uncompressed Size: 139k Depends: python Description: archive and compress your old email Archivemail moves old mail out of a mailbox (in Maildir, MH, or mbox format, or via IMAP) and archives it in a compressed mbox-format mailbox file. It is well suited to be run from cron for automatic archiving of your old mail. It runs via cron as well, and the included readmes will help you set the syntax up for whatever time period "floats yer boat". -- Regards Stephen A. Encrypted/Signed e-mail accepted (GPG or PGP) -- Key ID: 978BA045 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Having nothing, nothing can he lose. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature